English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 páginas |
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... speak , our fellow - citizens rather than remote beings whom we admire for their intellectual gifts . As Vernon Lee puts it , in speaking of the Italian writers of the last century : " It is in dealing with them that we first find that ...
... speak , our fellow - citizens rather than remote beings whom we admire for their intellectual gifts . As Vernon Lee puts it , in speaking of the Italian writers of the last century : " It is in dealing with them that we first find that ...
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... speak later . That this awkward form of writing should have lasted long , need not be wondered at . In the first place , there was no great reading public that should de- mand clearness . Milton's pamphlets were read by scholars who ...
... speak later . That this awkward form of writing should have lasted long , need not be wondered at . In the first place , there was no great reading public that should de- mand clearness . Milton's pamphlets were read by scholars who ...
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... speak , a shapely , well - defined brick as compared with the stone of different sizes that previous artisans made use of . * Before he died he found the couplet universally adopted . * It may be said that Waller accomplished what many ...
... speak , a shapely , well - defined brick as compared with the stone of different sizes that previous artisans made use of . * Before he died he found the couplet universally adopted . * It may be said that Waller accomplished what many ...
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... speaking of a newly married couple : " With the fourth sun a warm dispute arose On Durfey's poesy and Bunyan's prose . " D'Urfey's poetry was notoriously beneath contempt . John Dunton ( for whom vide infra ) , in a talk with the ...
... speaking of a newly married couple : " With the fourth sun a warm dispute arose On Durfey's poesy and Bunyan's prose . " D'Urfey's poetry was notoriously beneath contempt . John Dunton ( for whom vide infra ) , in a talk with the ...
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... speak later . We can , to be sure , find compliments to him in some of the writings of the time of the Restoration , but most of the authors neglected him , although I fancy that his popular- ity in this country among people of moderate ...
... speak later . We can , to be sure , find compliments to him in some of the writings of the time of the Restoration , but most of the authors neglected him , although I fancy that his popular- ity in this country among people of moderate ...
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Página 137 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 249 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Página 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 106 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 245 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 389 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Página 52 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Página 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Página 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...